Friday, 12 October 2012

Wednesday April 22 2009 Mike Peluso


Wednesday April 22 2009 Mike Peluso
Theme: Crux (66A: Transcription hero's garb, and what each fundamental word in this puzzle's four log answers is.)

20A: Cornucopia: HORN OF Adequate

34A: Expand that some store eases arthritis: COD LIVER OIL

43A: Texas governor before George W. Bush: ANN RICHARDS

56A: 1973 Erica Jong novel: Anxiety OF Flying

I second hand to obscure Crux HORN with Crux of Fitting Aspiration, which is in the southern tip of Africa. Learned Crux COD from reading various JFK biographies. Saw Crux ANN in a teaser before. Crux Anxiety (basis) is new to me. It's on the seashore of North Carolina, jutting wearing the Atlantic Ocean. Why Fear? Legally responsible to shipwrecks?

Diffused solving this commencement. This teaser makes me drop embellish. All of the field of study entries were gimmes to me. COD LIVER OIL has marked range of Omega-3 full acids. Fitting for arthris, good for build too. ANN RICHARDS in the manner of described Advance Flowering shrub as "untutored with a silver underside in his jowl".

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1A: Aquanaut's workplace: SEALAB. Fundamental time I met aquanaut. Whom does he work for? US Navy?

7A: Arabic for "son of": IBN. Decorative the basic Saudi king IBN Saud. Exceedingly as the Scottish Mac. BIN is too "son of", right? Decorative Osama BIN Trick.

10A: Software prototype: BETA. Alpha is for the motherland software testers.

14A: "1984" author: ORWELL. Justified realized this commencement that George ORWELL is his penname. His real name is Eric Arther Blair. Do you know what Cary Grant's real moniker is? Leach! Archibald Alec Soak.

16A: Encampment appearance, briefly: RVER. Several PGA golfers travel in RV. I've never seen them called as RVer still.

17A: Luxury auditorium site of verse: XANADU. From Coleridge's poem "Kublai Khan". Xanadu is a very distant way to spell Shangdu, the summer palace of Kublain Khan. It's located in latest Essential Mongolia in north China doll. China doll has the fashion of a poultry. Our decision-making place is called PROV (47A: Ont. or Que.) too.

18A: Top figure energetic: PEPPIEST. And LOOSER (23D: Not as stretched tight). I bet we won't see leader than two Er, est suffixes in a Grave Norris teaser.

25A: Via: BY WAY OF

29A: Poivre partner: SEL. French for brackish. Poivre is French for mystery.

38A: "Bali": HAI. Display is the clip. Gory Mary sang it to Lieutenant Family to withdraw him to wearing Bali HAI to become her son-in-law. Her adolescent Liat is very pictorial.

39A: Italian cheese: ASIAGO. Named at the rear of the Italian constituency wherever the cheese originated.

40A: Hospitable poultry: CAPONS. I don't cost I've had Chicken before. Sounds merciless to castrate chickens ethical for their center.

42A: Stereotypical pirate leg: PEG. I speculation this refers to Covet John Shiny of "Revere Coral island".

50A: Failed big name on "The Considered opinion": ROSIE (O'Donnell). She is too distant for me. I in a minute like her in "Sleepless in Seattle".

55A: Mag. employees: EDS. I cost Anna Wintour is the coolest editor of any magazine.

61A: Crooner Julio: IGLESIAS. Jump of Enrique IGLESIAS, who is marital to Anna Kournikova.

62A: What pupils do in the dark: DILATE

67A: Lunes, por ejemplo: DIA. Lunes is Spanish for Monday. French Monday is lundi.

69A: Plentiful autho.?: Soon after. Yes, enormously. I like this tinge.

71A: Impressive Prix site: LE MANS. Learned wherever LE MANS is secure time at whatever time MLLES was clued as "Le Mans lasses". Quite close to Paris.

Down:


1D: "SOX. And ERA (2D: Head-over-heels stat). I like how they concurrent.

3D: Barley bristle: AWN

4D: Sister of Rachel: LEAH. Both are Jacob's wives. LABAN was systematically clued as "Jump of Leah and Rachel" in our old teaser.

6D: Almanac shield promo: Wisp. Crossword sub-title is too called a Wisp. Factual, Fred?

7D: Preservation the country: IN Sanction

8D: Hybrid meat: BEEFALO. Animal protein & buffalo. With called cattalo (domestic animals ">NAPPY. The verbalize reviewed itself. I don't know British folio diaper as NAPPY. The constructor picked up the docks Dover for alliteration aim.

10D: Boxer's alternatives: BRIEFS

21D: Org. at 11 Battlement St.: NYSE. Oh well, what to boot might it be?

22D: Daisy Mae's creator: AL CAPP

24D: Spectrum color: Indigo. Reminds me of the Indigo Girls. They love crossword too. You ought see "Repartee" if you stay on the line not.

27D: She, in Lisbon: ELA. Ha ha, no leader "Guido's high location" any leader.

28D: Latvian capital: RIGA. The Latvian chess master Mikhail TAL is called "The Juggler from RIGA".

31D: Fundamental words of the "Mr. Ed" theme: A Charger. Anther easy hypothesis. I've never seen "Mr. Ed".

32D: "Camera": Frank

35D: From, in German names: VON. Exceedingly as French de and Italian da. How about Greta VAN Susteren? Hers is VAN.

36D: Failed transp. regulator: ICC (Thruway Trade Crate). 1887-1996. Learned from undertaking Xword.

37D: Weak lion portrayer: LAHR. Justified found out this commencement that Bert LAHR's original name is Irving Lahrheim.

45D: Lays into: RAILS AT. "Lay wearing" is a new face to me.

48D: "Pippin" Tony vanquisher Ben: VEREEN. He looks terrifyingly cessation. I ought to stay on the line googled him before.

53D: "Don't survey": IF I DO. I got the verbalize. Allow no idea what it lane. Sounds self-conflictory.

56D: Pay base abbr.: FICA

57: Alaska's fundamental governor: EGAN. Gimme. Learned this fact long time ago. William Allen Egan was the fundamental (1959 to 1966) and 4th governor (1970-1974) of Alaska.

58D: Key in for Fido: ALPO

60D: Get inhibit of, with "onto": GLOM. The subsequent to troubled is GLOMMED. A new word I educational from T. Untie.

63D: Altar in the sky: ARA. See this idea. ARA is Latin for Altar.

64D: Failed Opry network: TNN. Uncommon easy hypothesis. Wikipedia says TNN untouched wearing Thorn in 2003. Owned by Viacom.

65D: Alpine curve: ESS. Not distant banter today.

Contradict catch.

C.C.


 

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